Local system builders? preferably North York or Thornhill

[William Park]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:13:42PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 06/17/2010 07:57 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >* it has PS/2 ports.  WOOHOO!!!!  I have a couple of genuine IBM PS/2
> >   "clickety-clack" keyboards that I was getting ready to tearfully throw
> >   away, because I couldn't buy new machines with PS/2 ports anymore.
> 
> For future reference, you can get a PS/2 to USB converter. I use my 
> genuine IBM keyboard with any system, PS/2 or USB.
> 
> >   When I saw the VGA/HDMI and especially the PS/2 ports, I knew I was
> >going to be buying it.  Does anybody know of any linux-compatability
> >show-stoppers with Intel i3 motherboards?  If not, I'm buying.
> 
> I have an ASUS P55D running an i5-750. It does not have an integrated 
> video card so I use an nVidia GeForce 9600GT (a.k.a. G94) fanless video 
> card. It works perfectly well with the nouveau (open source) driver. 

Yours works?  I had to disable "nouveau" module (ie. not compile even as
module, because it would load automatically), because kernel would crash
during booting.  And, that's Kernel 2.6.34, nVidia 8500GT.

> I've had the binary driver working before too. The only issue was the 
> built-in Intel HDA sound card. I had no end of problems with PulseAudio 
> with that until I disabled on-board card and plugged in an ancient 
> SoundBlaster.
> 
> The power supply I bought was the OCZ Stealth XStream 500W ($66 last 
> September). That is on sale right now at NCIX for $20. It might include 
> shipping. If you purchase one of their specials that has shipping 
> included, they ship everything else free.

-- 
William

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